Cryptic circulation of chikungunya virus in Côte d'Ivoire revealed by sentinel travellers, 2023-2024

Laura Pezzi; Gabriella Modenesi; Nazli Ayhan; Laura Verdurme; Ségolène Brichler; Jean-Michel Mansuy; Jacques Izopet; Morgane Mailhe; Sylvie Lariven; Alexandre Duvignaud; Nael Zemali; Christophe Ramière; Vinca Icard; Véronique Bravy; Nelly Fournet; Ayoub Idrissi; Aurélien Zhu-Soubise; Géraldine Piorkowski; Rayane Amaral; Madeleine Carrara; Albin Fontaine; Arnaud Tarantola; Gilda Grard; Guillaume André Durand; Lucie Fournier; Marie-Claire Paty; Xavier Lamballerie; Raphaëlle Klitting

doi:10.1093/jtm/taaf002

Cryptic circulation of chikungunya virus in Côte d'Ivoire revealed by sentinel travellers, 2023-2024

J Travel Med. 2025 Jan 10:taaf002. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaf002. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Laura Pezzi^{1

2}, Gabriella Modenesi³, Nazli Ayhan^{1

2}, Laura Verdurme⁴, Ségolène Brichler⁵, Jean-Michel Mansuy⁶, Jacques Izopet^{6

7}, Morgane Mailhe^{8

9}, Sylvie Lariven⁹, Alexandre Duvignaud^{10

11}, Nael Zemali¹², Christophe Ramière^{13

14}, Vinca Icard¹⁴, Véronique Bravy¹⁵, Nelly Fournet³, Ayoub Idrissi¹⁶, Aurélien Zhu-Soubise¹⁶, Géraldine Piorkowski², Rayane Amaral², Madeleine Carrara¹⁷, Albin Fontaine^{2

18}, Arnaud Tarantola³, Gilda Grard^{1

2}, Guillaume André Durand^{1

2}, Lucie Fournier³, Marie-Claire Paty³, Xavier Lamballerie^{1

2

17}, Raphaëlle Klitting^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ National Reference Center for Arboviruses, Inserm-IRBA, Marseille, France.
² Unité des Virus Émergents (UVE: Aix-Marseille Univ, Università di Corsica, IRD 190, Inserm 1207, IRBA), France.
³ Santé publique France (French National Public Health Agency), Saint-Maurice, France.
⁴ Laboratoire Cerba, Frépillon, France.
⁵ Service de Microbiologie Clinique, hôpital Avicenne, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Bobigny, France.
⁶ Laboratoire de Virologie, CHU de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
⁷ Institut Toulousain des Maladies Infectieuses et Inflammatoires (INFINITY), Inserm UMR1291-CNRS UMR5051, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
⁸ Université Paris Cité, INSERM IAME UMR_1137, Paris, France.
⁹ Infectious diseases department, Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France.
¹⁰ Global Health in the Global South Research Team-University of Bordeaux, National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) UMR 1219, French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) EMR 271, Bordeaux Population Health Research Centre, Bordeaux, France.
¹¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Division of Tropical Medicine and Clinical International Health, CHU Bordeaux, Hôpital Pellegrin, Place Amélie Raba Léon, Bordeaux, France.
¹² Laboratoire de Virologie, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
¹³ CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Team VIRIMI, Univ Lyon, Inserm, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France.
¹⁴ Virology Department, Institut des Agents Infectieux, Hôpital de la Croix Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon, 69004 Lyon, France.
¹⁵ Laboratoire BIOCLINIC INOVIE SELAS Guevalt Aulnay-sous-Bois, France.
¹⁶ Regional Health Agency of Île-de-France (ARS Île-de-France), Saint-Denis, France.
¹⁷ Laboratoire des Infections Virales Aigues et Tropicales, AP-HM Hôpitaux Universitaires de Marseille, Marseille, France.
¹⁸ Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées (IRBA), Unité de virologie, Marseille, France.

PMID: 39791250
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaf002

No abstract available

Keywords: Arbovirus; chikungunya; emergence; molecular epidemiology; surveillance.